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"Jade Helm 15, the controversial Special Operation
woodshed87
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WTH is this "Jade Helm" deal anyhow?
Either it's a large scale Special Forces Exercise:
http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/2015/07/14/jade-helm-starts-army-special-operations-exercise/30144561/
Or it's the End of the World As We Know It:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theories
Is Jade Helm an actual person or another type of Spec.Ops group?
"Operation Jade Helm", just the name of the operation. The military does enjoy picking these names.
Lots of other training operations like this have happened over the years. Somehow, the "Crazy" went viral over this one. Enough conspiracy theories to choke a flying saucer's crew of flying purple people eaters.
At least here in the US I'd guess that obtaining the consent of everyone in a community would be impossible. About the time some military yokel placed an illegal impediment in front of my home or on my way to wherever I deemed fit to travel there would be problems. I'd expect not only problems with common citizens but with my local police forces as military government is patently illegal in all but a very few instances.
I think what bothers me most is that even a small miscalculation on the part of government could very well lead us down a path with unintended consequences. Our military while being big and bad doesn't historically do well when dealing with a hostile population. This not only applies to recent experiences going back to Vietnam but also applies to times well before the 1960's.
King George and the British Empire owned the biggest and baddest military on earth in the 1770's. Face to face on their terms the British military could not be defeated, yet when faced with non-conventional tactics their military failed to suppress a much weaker opponent. Weaker at least in theory but more determined and unconventional.
A lesson we seem unable to grasp is that it makes little difference about having overwhelming force if one cannot sleep peacefully and cannot move without fear. There comes a point where the expense is too much to justify the hoped for end.
I see a potential for problems if they go outside their rules. We encountered and detained military/DOD personnel involved in suspicious activity that were determined to be "training". It is alarming.
I can see problems for local LE and Sherriff Dept.
If the local PD tries to "apprehend" Special forces that should be a real hoot.
Well it presents a problem if they #1 physically resist civilian authority, #2 flee and/or #3 are armed with weapons with live ammunition. If this is in fact a "training" event they should have strict orders to comply with civilian authority if they are challenged. If they can't move around freely and undetected then they have failed at their training mission. Being "special forces" doesn't make them bullet proof.
Or, there's always Gatorade and bagels. That's even better.
So if the Reds are hostile and the Blues are friendly, what's Brown New Mexico?
Uncertain(leaning hostile)
Out of the seven states of operation, Texas/Utah is the hostile zone.
Apparently the creator of this map didn't bother to proof read it. Excercise?
I forgot this was happening today. I was driving from Fort Morgan CO to Scottsbluff NE and the on to Cheyenne WY today I encountered 8 different hummers with guns mounted on a turet on top of the hummer. It Makes a guy a little uneasy when your driving down the interstate with a hummer pulled off to the side of and over pass with a 50 cal pointed at you
Saber rattling from Obama to keep the angry sheple content in Wyoming?
serf
WTH is this "Jade Helm" deal anyhow?
It's the same thing the military has been doing forever, only this year, Alex Jones found out the name of it.
I forgot this was happening today. I was driving from Fort Morgan CO to Scottsbluff NE and the on to Cheyenne WY today I encountered 8 different hummers with guns mounted on a turet on top of the hummer. It Makes a guy a little uneasy when your driving down the interstate with a hummer pulled off to the side of and over pass with a 50 cal pointed at you
Yep. Security troops protecting the USAF Minuteman nuclear ICBMs. My wife used to one of those folks. MANY years ago. [;)]